localgovdrupal / localgov_news
News for LocalGov Drupal
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Package info
github.com/localgovdrupal/localgov_news
Type:drupal-module
pkg:composer/localgovdrupal/localgov_news
Requires
- drupal/core: ^10.2 || ^11.0
- drupal/entity_browser: ^2.5
- drupal/entity_reference_facet_link: ^2.0.0-beta
- drupal/facets: ^2.0 || ^3.0
- drupal/field_group: ^4.0
- drupal/pathauto: ~1.0
- drupal/schema_metatag: ^3.0.3
- drupal/search_api: ^1.17
- drupal/search_api_autocomplete: ^1.3
- localgovdrupal/localgov_core: ^2.12
- localgovdrupal/localgov_topics: ^1.0
Requires (Dev)
This package is auto-updated.
Last update: 2026-05-29 01:28:58 UTC
README
LocalGov Drupal News
Provides the pages and navigation for presenting news articles. A part of the LocalGovDrupal distribution.
What is in it?
- Content types:
- News article - a single news article, optionally categorised;
- Newsroom - a landing page to list and feature news articles.
- Blocks:
- News search form;
- Facets - by default date and category.
Install process
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Standard Drupal module installation process applies.
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By default the search and facet blocks for news are shown in the view mode for the newsroom, and as blocks on all pages under the
news/*path if you have the localgov_base theme installed. Alternatively, add, or change the configuration for, these three blocks from the Drupal block layout admin page.
Usage
- Create a Newsroom
- Create one, or more, newsrooms for articles to go into.
- A newsroom has a field in which it is possible to select 3 featured articles.
- The Featured News block shows up to 3 featured articles - if there are fewer than 3 explicitly featured articles the remainder will be filled by the latest promoted articles (if any).
- The Article List block will show 10 articles per page, excluding those in the featured block.
- The limits (3 and 10) can be changed in the localgov_news_list view on the all_news and featured_news displays.
- Add news articles. By default:
- The Categories field uses the LocalGov Topics vocabulary. Edit the field to use alternative or additional vocabularies.
- Image is a required field - authors can upload a new image or select an image from the media library.
- Article nodes are not promoted - see the Featured News section below.
- Article aliases are: [node:localgov_newsroom:entity:url:path]/[node:localgov_news_date:date:html_year]/[node:title] thus prefacing the path with that of their newsroom, followed by year and sanitised title.
Structured data
- The Schema.org Metatag module is used to generate structured data for individual news articles. This is rendered as JSON LD in the
<head>element.